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	The UnMuseum: The Hitler Diaries
		Heidemann realized that if the diaries were authentic and if he could get a hold of them, he would have one of the biggest journalistic scoops of the 20th century.
		Heidemann told his bosses that after the plane crash the diaries had come into the possession of an East German general and were being smuggled out of that country one by one (supposedly inside pianos).
		Most damaging of all was the claim by experts of Hitler's writing that the script in the diaries did not resemble his at all, especially since the handwriting had been at the heart of Stern's authentication procedure.
	www.unmuseum.org /hitlerdiaries.htm (1640 words)

	Hitler Diaries
		At a press conference on April 25, 1983, the diaries were declared by these experts to be authentic.
		The diaries were claimed to be part of a consignment of documents recovered from an aircraft crash in Börnersdorf near Dresden in April 1945.
		The diaries were actually written by Konrad Kujau, a notorious Stuttgart forger of Hitler's works.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hi/hitler_diaries.html (394 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: people/h/hitler.adolf/harris-on-irving.01
		However 'objectively' he might piece together the unpublished recollections of Hitler's subordinates, they were still the words of men and women who admired their ruler.
		And confined to Hitler's daily routine, the biography had a curiously unreal quality: the death camps, the atrocities, the sufferings of millions of people which were the result of Hitler's war were not to be found in _Hitler's War_ as it was reconstructed by David Irving.
		With the Hitler diaries fast becoming the hottest news story in the world, these worthless scraps had suddenly become a potential gold mine.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/people/h/ftp.py?people/h/hitler.adolf/harris-on-irving.01 (2178 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hitler's Diaries: The Rise & Fall of Adolf Hitler: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hitler had the power to move armies to genocide, and to mesmerize his audiences with the abandon of a religious revival meeting.
		Hitler's voice forms the sountrack, emphasizing that it was not what Hitler said, but how he said it, the music and melody of his voice which droves adoring crowds wild.
		Hitler said his was a "religious movement" and numerous scholars agree Hitler had a "cult-like following." Hitler's Mein Kampf is littered with occult references, such as "The Lords of the Earth" and "Divine Providence" and Hitler tells of visions and hearing a "voice" which saved his life.
	www.amazon.ca /Hitlers-Diaries-Rise-Adolf-Hitler/dp/B000094J68 (1799 words)

	The Hitler Diaries
		The explanation of where the diaries had come from was plausible enough to be credible, while also being appropriately unverifiable.
		The diaries were pulled out of the wreckage of the crash and preserved for the next three decades by an East German general.
		Anticipation continued to build about what the diaries would reveal until experts had a chance to examine them and delivered their unanimous verdict: the diaries were clumsy, almost amateurish forgeries.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /day/04_25_2001.html (481 words)

	The Hitler Diaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The newly discovered diaries, which were said to comprise 60 volumes and cover the entire 12-year history of the Third Reich, had been apparently spirited out of Berlin in one of the last flights out of the encircled city in April 1945.
		Rudimentary scientific tests, initiated by The Sunday Times as soon as Stern agreed to release the diaries for independent analysis, quickly exposed "the scoop of the century" as the oops of the century, and the West German Federal Archives declared the diaries to be "grotesque and superficial forgeries".
		Linklater smelled something rotten in the Hitler diaries, but even with his magnified insight into an eerily similar forgery, he was unable to resist the momentum that the diaries had behind them.
	www.1earthmedia.com /fake_photo/hitler_diary.htm (3524 words)

	Hitler's Diaries
		Hitler claimed he was serving the needs of "divine providence" and those needs may well have included the reestablishment of the state of Israel.
		As Hitler struggled to become dictator of Germany, and as he clearly states in his book, Mein Kampf, the Jews, he preached had not only obtained positions of power disproportionate to their numbers, but they were stealing German wealth, were engaged in sex slavery, and they threatened to overwhelm society with evil and moral decay.
		Once Hitler came to power, and as he led his nation out of the great depression to greatness, he and his government issued orders controlling Jewish breeding and sexuality; and then the Jews were barred from practicing their professions; and then the Jews were officially described as subhuman, then they were ordered to immigrate.
	brainmind.com /Hitler.html (5466 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 25 \| 1983: 'Hitler diaries' published (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The alleged diaries cover a period from 1932 until shortly before Hitler's death in Berlin in 1945.
		Adolf Hitler is said to have written the diaries between 1932 and 1945
		The text of the "diaries" was also found to be full of historical inaccuracies and anachronisms.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/25/newsid_4464000/4464109.stm (587 words)

	The Straight Dope: Did Hitler have only one testicle?
		The case of Hitler's missing testicle is one of many bizarre twists in the life of one of history's most bizarre hombres.
		This contained the startling news that Hitler's "left testicle could not be found either in the scrotum or on the spermatic cord inside the inguinal canal, or in the small pelvis.
		None of Hitler's doctors or attendants had ever mentioned anything about a missing testicle, and his medical records were silent on the subject.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_128b.html (1106 words)

	Artworks attributed to Hitler on sale - Boston.com
		Watercolors and sketches attributed to Adolf Hitler are up for sale Tuesday, forcing a tiny auction house in southwest England to install multiple telephone lines to accommodate an expected crush of bidders from Canada to New Zealand.
		In 2004, an auction house was even able to sell for nearly $8,000 a volume of the bogus "Hitler diaries," which were published in the 1980s by a German magazine.
		The watercolor -- a caricature of a German postman -- was drawn by Hitler in 1924.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/09/25/artworks_attributed_to_hitler_on_sale?mode=PF (569 words)

	Historian who fell for Hitler Diaries fraud dies - theage.com.au
		The diaries were found to be a hoax, but only after the Sunday Times had published what it said was a sensational scoop.
		His authentication of the diaries was crucial because at the end of World War II, as a military intelligence officer, Trevor-Roper investigated Hitler's disappearance.
		One of the items in the diaries said that Hitler ordered his armies to hold back after the fall of France in 1940 to allow the British expeditionary force to escape from Dunkirk.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/27/1043534001766.html (399 words)

	Robert Harris: Selling Hitler
		In Hitler's War, published in 1977, he had quoted one of the Fuehrer's doctors, who described how Hitler had expressed his admiration for an 'objective' biography of the Kaiser written by an Englishman.
		Hitler's War, ten years in the making, had been based on a wealth of previously unpublished documents, letters and diaries.
		And confined to Hitler's daily routine, the biography had a curiously unreal quality: the death camps, the atrocities, the sufferings of millions of people which were the result of Hitler's war were not to be found in Hitler's War as it was reconstructed by David Irving.
	www.nizkor.org /hweb/people/i/irving-david/reviews/harris-on-irving-01.html (2336 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - The Hitler Diaries
		The diaries were fl, A4 sized, handwritten notebooks, (some bearing red-wax seals in the form of a German eagle).
		On its opening day, the Hitler Diaries trial drew an audience of 100 reporters, 150 photographers and television crewmen and around sixty members of the public.
		The American ‘Newsweek’, which had ran the Hitler Diaries on its front cover for three successive weeks, was widely criticized for its behaviour.
	www.casebook.org /dissertations/ripperoo-hitler.html (1135 words)

	Guardian \| Lord Dacre, verifier of the Hitler diaries, dies
		A man with broad historical interests and a lover of academic controversy, the former Hugh Trevor-Roper was made a Tory life peer in 1979 and became one of the leading scholars of his generation.
		In 1983, as a distinguished academic, life peer and director of Times Newspapers, he was the obvious choice to be consulted over the Hitler diaries, which the Sunday Times and Stern magazine planned to publish if they could be shown to be genuine.
		The 61 volumes of the diaries, which had allegedly turned up in East Germany, turned out to be the work of Konrad Kujau who had been handsomely paid by both newspaper and magazine but was later jailed.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4592133-103685,00.html (304 words)

	Man who duped Murdoch over Hitler diaries was a Stasi agent - smh.com.au
		The journalist jailed for his part in one of the 20th century's great hoaxes - the publication of the "Hitler diaries" - was an agent of east Germany's intelligence service, the Stasi, newly-published evidence reveals.
		Gerd Heidemann, the intermediary between the forger of the diaries and his employers at Stern magazine, was quoted as saying he had been a double agent.
		The diaries, supposedly covering the entire history of the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945, were the invention of a Stuttgart-based forger, Konrad Kujau.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/30/1027926889629.html (438 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Harvard Professors Suspicious Of Hitler Diaries' Authenticity
		Doubting the diaries' validity, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith said in his capacity as a director of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in 1945 he personally interviewed Albert Speer and other key Nazi officials.
		Erich Goldhagen, who teaches a Social Analysis course on the Holocaust, said he is inclined to think the diaries are forgeries due to the dubious circumstances of their discovery.
		Schama said that a principal reason for his skepticism is Hitler's poor physical condition towards the end of his life, which would have rendered it very difficult, if not impossible, for Hitler to have written the final entries in the diary.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=204502 (352 words)

	Hitler's Diaries
		Hitler and the Nazis were masters at incorporating the arts and the media not only for the purposes of political propaganda, but to profoundly influence and shape the collective unconscious of the people.
		Instead, the film stars and is narrated by Adolf Hitler, and consists of authentic and often rare Nazi film footage and photographs.
		Hitler's Diaries is Adolf Hitler in his own words.
	hitlersdiaries.com (612 words)

	Today in Odd History: Hitler Diaries Debacle Begins (February 18, 1981)
		Although handwriting analysis suggested that the diaries were authentic, scientific investigation of the paper and ink revealed that they were, in fact, no more than a few years old.
		Heidemann was a reporter employed by Stern, who had been recruited by the Stasi, the East German secret police, in 1953 and who was still active with the Stasi in the early 1980s, although he later claimed to have been a double agent.
		They called in scientists who discovered that the paper in the diaries, the seals on them and the ink in which they were written were all of post-WWII manufacture.
	www.newsoftheodd.com /article1001.html (507 words)

	Literary Forensics by Katherine Ramsland
		When the forgery of the Hitler diaries was exposed, Kujau ran, but was arrested and tried in Hamburg in 1984.
		It soon came out that over the two years in which he had worked on the diaries, one of the techniques he'd devised for making the diaries appear authentic was to smash them with a hammer and to stain the paper with tea-leaves.
		By the time he was finished, the diary ran from 1935 until 1945, relying for content on newspapers, medical reports, and reference books—specifically a book that contained Hitler's speeches.
	www.crimelibrary.com /criminal_mind/forensics/literary/6.html (1607 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Mirror not first to be duped
		Perhaps the most humiliating moment in newspaper history came in 1983 when the Sunday Times followed the lead of German magazine Stern and chose to run extracts from the Hitler Diaries, which were quickly established to be forgeries.
		But although there was embarrassment in the Hitler Diaries case, there was no political impact to match that in perhaps the greatest ever hoax involving a newspaper - the Zinoviev letter.
		But while this hoax cost a government its grip on power, and the Hitler Diaries cost many their reputations, all news organisations are the victims of lesser hoaxes on a regular basis.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3716013.stm (946 words)

	The Hitler Diaries, a notorious case of forgery - The Crime library
		According to Charles Hamilton's book, The Hitler Diaries, the volumes were reported to be one of the most-significant, historical discoveries in recent history.
		The "priceless" diaries were allegedly discovered several years earlier by an East German who had learned that the artifacts were in the possession of farmers living in the
		Following their discovery, it was alleged that the documents were kept in a secret location, then eventually smuggled out of the country and kept secured until they were publicly revealed to the world years later.
	www.crimelibrary.com /criminal_mind/scams/hitler_diaries (745 words)

	'Hitler diaries' man was a spy \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		The journalist jailed for his part in one of the 20th century's great hoaxes - the publication of the 'Hitler diaries' - was an agent of East Germany's intelligence service, the Stasi, according to new evidence published yesterday.
		Gerd Heidemann, who acted as the intermediary between the forger of the diaries and his employers at Stern magazine, was quoted as saying he had, in fact, been a double agent.
		The Sunday Times was about to begin serialising the diaries and the Times had already carried an article by Lord Dacre (formerly Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper) endorsing their authenticity.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,764744,00.html (531 words)

	Minister's Malibu: Some big cases - ABC Science Online - the Lab
		One of the world's most famous crimes involving paper and ink analysis was the case of the forged Hitler diaries.
		This was true, but the samples of 'genuine' Hitler handwriting that they used for comparison, we now know, had been forged by the same person as the diaries!
		Threads attached to the seals were made of viscose and polyester, artificial fabrics that were not used in Hitler's time.
	www.abc.net.au /science/forensic/bigcases/case_sample_03.htm (886 words)

	Konrad Kujai
		Konrad Kujau, a raffish German swindler who sold 60 volumes of forged "Hitler diaries" to a German magazine for $4.8 million, died on Tuesday in a hospital in Stuttgart, Germany.
		Authorities on Hitler-era documents who were on the staff of the federal German archives declared that the "diaries" were made with postwar ink, paper, glue and even binding.
		Booms said mistakes in the book also appeared in the "diaries," which he called a "grotesque, superficial forgery." He insinuated that they had originated with Nazi sympathizers or Nazis.
	www.mishalov.com /Kujau.html (2002 words)

	The Hitler Diaries - history - central - British Council - LearnEnglish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The authenticity of the diaries was, however, immediately challenged by experts in many countries, and Lord Dacre (who was a director of Times Newspapers Ltd) conceded on April 25 that he had misunderstood the manner of their procurement so that he now doubted that they were genuine.
		Der Stern insisted until early May on their authenticity but agreed to submit certain volumes for examination by expert bodies such as the West German Federal Archive (Bundesarchiv); the latter denounced them on May 6 as 'grotesquely primitive forgeries' after establishing that the paper, ink, glue and binding threads were all of post-war manufacture.
		In the context of West Germany's relations with Eastern Europe, it was alleged in West Germany that the diaries had been forged in East Germany with the aim of destabilizing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by spreading doubt as to the true nature and motives of Nazism.
	www.britishcouncil.org /learnenglish-central-history-hitler-diaries.htm (410 words)

	Stasi link adds new twist to Hitler diaries hoax - theage.com.au
		The journalist jailed for his part in one of the 20th century's great hoaxes - the publication of the "Hitler diaries" - was an agent of East Germany's intelligence service, the Stasi, according to new evidence.
		The revelation reignites the theory that the 1983 Hitler diaries affair was not just a vintage bungle, but a communist plot.
		Mr Murdoch's The Sunday Times in London was about to begin serialisation of the diaries and The Times had carried an article by Lord Dacre (formerly Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper) endorsing their authenticity.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/29/1027926853903.html (367 words)

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